Masks are required for entry to a shoe store in Glendale, Calif. Most people follow guidelines to wear masks when they enter retail stores and restaurants, but some customers don't comply. David McNew/Getty Images hide caption
In the age of COVID-19, most people practice social distancing guidelines when they go into stores and restaurants, putting on masks and standing 6 feet behind other customers.
Not to change the topic here:
Walmart asks customers to use credit, debit cards amid coronavirus pandemic coin shortage
Is one of the nation's largest retailers asking customers to use debit and credit cards instead of cash?
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There are multiple reports that Walmart stores are requesting customers to use either a debit or credit card to complete their in-person purchases.
KXTV in Sacramento, California , reported Walmart stores are being hit hard by a nation-wide coin shortage.
Kroger not giving customers change back amid COVID-19 related coin shortage - ABC13 Houston
How Brands Can Stay Engaged With Customers
Establishing customer engagement and keeping them engaged is more important than ever for brands. Now that many brands have temporarily lost the ability for invaluable face-to-face contact with customers, it's crucial that they diversify their engagement for this new normal.
Where possible, brands are figuring out if and how they can offer their services online. This is understandably tricky for people like hairdressers and massage therapists. And even if people working in these professions did manage to offer services online, they do so at the risk of their post-lockdown income—will people want to pay $50 for a massage if their partner can do it for free?
Other things to check out:
Brickley's Ice Cream shuts Wakefield shop over bad customer behavior | WJAR
Apple urging its retail employees to help customers remotely - HoustonChronicle.com
Apple Inc. is readjusting operations as Covid-19 cases continue to spike in the U.S. and some other parts of the world.
The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is pushing retail staff to work remotely as the virus forces the company to shut some of its stores again, according to a video message sent to employees. It is also shipping Covid-19 test kits to employees’ homes, and told staff in a memo that a full return to U.S. offices won’t occur before the end of the year.
Survey: Amazon Customers Overwhelmingly Concerned About Plastic Pollution, Want Plastic-Free
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Public opinion research sponsored by Oceana , the world's largest international ocean conservation organization, shows Amazon customers are buying more online due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, are overwhelmingly concerned about plastic pollution and its impact on the oceans, and want major online retailers including Amazon to give them plastic-free packaging choices.
"Jeff Bezos and Amazon say they are obsessed with meeting the needs of their customers.
Google BigQuery Omni connects customers to data in AWS and Azure | ZDNet
There is no free lunch, though. Even in more physically constrained scenarios, federated queries are complex and expensive. When the federation essentially involves different data warehouse clusters in separate data centers, let alone separate clouds, that complexity only increases.
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Omni, and Anthos more generally, are smart realpolitik moves, and less capitulatory than competitive: customers who find GCP services attractive may then decide to land new data there...and maybe even move old data there from AWS and Azure. In other words, while data gravity begets service usage, the reverse can be true as well.
Happening on Twitter
A yoga studio in Vancouver is refusing people from attending their classes if they wear a face mask. https://t.co/RahLgrEXwT cbcnewsbc (from Vancouver, British Columbia) Tue Jul 07 18:43:00 +0000 2020
Star Nursery says some customers still refusing to wear masks. https://t.co/ZyvzTxu5mU KTNV (from Las Vegas) Sun Jul 12 04:39:00 +0000 2020
Even Gov. Abbott knows that a mask order is essential to preventing the spread of Covid19. So why does the @HEB on… https://t.co/PKYUmhA8iW ElisaCardnell (from Houston, TX) Mon Jul 06 16:01:56 +0000 2020
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